President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to economist Robert Solow during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 24, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...
Robert M. Solow, who won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics for exploring the impact of technology on economic growth, work that spawned a wider understanding of what drives the expansion of industrial ...
Last summer, as he turned 95, the economist Robert M. Solow sat at home poring over a draft outline of “The Work of the Future,” an MIT report about technology, jobs, and economic growth. Solow has ...